Continuous delivery of data services has always been a battle for us data analytics peeps. Things are getting better when we think about business intelligence and dev ops, however there are still gaps. This blog post is an account of one such issue I recently faced and how I worked around the problem. Problem While … Continue reading Inject into Azure Logic Apps ARM Templates with PowerShell
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Azure Data Factory v2 Developer Interface Launched
Its finally here!! After being teased for nearly 4 months with all the great new functionality available in Azure Data Factory version 2 we finally have the tools to start developing it. Microsoft, it appears, have leap frogged my long standing request and feedback votes to support ADF templates in Visual Studio 2017 and gone … Continue reading Azure Data Factory v2 Developer Interface Launched
Azure Data Factory v1 & v2 Service Principal Authentication for Azure Data Lake
Sadly this post has been born out of frustration, so please accept my apologies from the outset if that comes across in the tone. That said, I imagine anyone reading it will empathise and will have come across the post while searching for an understanding of some inconsistencies when using service principals to authenticate against … Continue reading Azure Data Factory v1 & v2 Service Principal Authentication for Azure Data Lake
Using U-SQL Split to Handle Variable Width Datasets
Happy New Year folks and welcome back to work! I hope you had a nice break. 🙂 I decided to kick off the new year of blogging with something fairly simple following some support work I did helping out a friend in the community. The problem encountered was twofold when dealing with data in Azure … Continue reading Using U-SQL Split to Handle Variable Width Datasets
Controlling U-SQL Job AU’s with Azure Data Factory v2 Pipeline Parameters
This post came about really from me playing around with Azure Data Factory Version 2 (ADFv2) and trying to gain a better appreciation of why and how you can now use parameters and expressions in ADFv2 to control your pipelines. Below is the first thing I tested out and hopefully gives you a taster of … Continue reading Controlling U-SQL Job AU’s with Azure Data Factory v2 Pipeline Parameters
The Azure Icon Game v2
If you've ever seen me at a community event you'll probably know that I like to warm up the crowd by playing the Azure Icon Game (as I've named it). When moving round Microsoft cloud platform portal you will be greeted my many graphics, some are obvious, some are strange, others are a bit random! … Continue reading The Azure Icon Game v2
